PHIL 2504 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Radical Translation, Malapropism, Derangement
27 Feb 2018
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Primary contributions in philosophy of mind and action, but with strong connections to his semantics he presents a unified philosophy. One of the most complex and influential philosophers of the 20th century. Deeply influenced by quine, under whom he studied as a graduate student. For instance, quine"s notion of radical translation shaped davidson"s views on meaning and communication. Re-conceptualizing what it means to speak and interpret language incorrectly. Re-conceptualizing what it means to speak and interpret language successfully. Showing how these new views demonstrate a very different picture of language if we continue to accept the existence of language at all. In distinguishing linguistic meaning and competence from other sorts involved in communication, we usually appeal to a complex system of principles. For davidson, this makes possible the articulation of logical relations between utterances, and explains the ability to interpret novel utterances in an organized way (349) Sometimes this position is referred to as conventionalism .
